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Sept. l, 1925.

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EDUCATIONAL TOY BOOK..

Application filedV August 30, 1923. vSerial-No..` 660,171.

To .all whom t may concern.'

Beit known that I., LESTER DoUGLAs, Acitizen of the United `States ofl America,

.residing at; New York, in the county `of New York andv State of New York7 have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Educational. Toy Books, of which the following is a specification.y v

ThisA invention relates to toy books, and has special reference toa toy book foryoung children having pcturestherein for cutting out.

One important object of` the invention is to provide an improved and novel toy book.

whicliwilli not only afford great amusement in cutting out of pictures, but will also train their minds to associate like shapes of objects.

Another important object of the invention is to provide a book of this description in which instructions will be given as to the appropriateness of illustrations to a text.`

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists in general of a-novel toy book provided with pictures and a text, the text having blank spaces and the pictures being on leaves separate from the text to be cut out and placed in the appropriate blank spaces.

One example of such a toy book will now be described, the novel features will be specically claimed, and one type of the book is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Fig. 1 shows a book of this description opened to disclose one of the pages for cutting out and one of the text pages.

Fig. 2 is a detail view of a page in such a book, removed from the book and showing the illustrative character thereof.

Fig. 3 is a view showing one of the text pages of such a book.

In the construction of this book, there is provided a series of pages 10, which are permanently bound, and on these pages is printed a text of one of the common stories appealing to children, such as a story about Santa Claus, or the like, this text being indicated at 11. Each of the pages 10 is provided with certain blank spaces 12. In connection with these pages there are also bound in the bookother pages 13, and adjacent the binding these pages are provided each with a weakened line 14 so that the major portions of these pages may be de tached. Y On the pages 13 are illustrations 1.15.- and 'these illustrations are surroundedlby.V contour rlines. 16 which give the generalconl tour of the illustration. These contourflines are placed; around the illustrations in. order to enable small. children t0 cut out theilf lustrations; without great skill inthe useof a scissorsor a-knife. .EachV of the blank spaces 12.on the pages 10 visalso provided with acontour line 17and it tovbe observed that each ofthe illustrations has an lindividual contour line Vdifferent from `that ofr any ofthe Aother illustrationaand. that the contour linellf?z corresponds ini-sizeand shape to; the. 'con-tour line 16VA of the specific or particular illustrations. The purpose of this will be understood especially by reference to Figures 2 and 3. VIn these two figures it will be seen that one of the illustrations therein has the contour line 16 exactly corresponding to the contour line 17 of Fig. 3, and that the portion of text 11 on the page shown in Fig. 3 is such that when the f illustration from Fig. 2 is placed therein, it will be appropriate for what is shown in the text.

- Now it will be seen from this that since there is but one contour line on the pages 10 corresponding to the. specific contour line on the pages 13, the child will have to match tour lines in the text until one is found that fits. The picture may then be pasted down on the page 10 at this point and eventually the child will have illustrated the text by the various pictures. It will be noted` that this not only affords amusement for the child, all children delighting to cut out pictures, but trains the child in matching shapes. v Furthermore, when a child has begun to read or when the text is read to it, it may be trained by this means into the selection of appropriate illustrations for the different passages of the text. As an example of the mannervin which this may be used, the text may be read by or to the child, and then it may pick out what it deems an appropriate illustration for this part ofthe text from the pictures." Thenby comparing the outlines it will be possible, for the child proper picture or not. By reference to Fig. 1 it kwillbe seen, while the illustrations are not shown inside of the contounlines, that the contour A of Y up the cut out pictures with the Various conl m5 itself to see whether it has lpicked out the Y and instructive toy book for children. L

It will be obvious that while there is here illustratedone particular text andone-particularshape of book, the text may be varied at will and the pictures made to correspond therewith.l Y Y v Y Having thus describedthe invention, what is claimed as new, is:

1. An educational book including a plurality of permanently bound pages having av story text thereon provided at intervals with blank spaces, and a plurality ofother pages bound with the rst mentioned pages and having weakened lines ladjacent the binding to permit ready detachment ofthe main portions of said pages,'the last mentioned pages having complete picture units thereon for cutting out and insertion in the appropriate'blank spaces ofthe first pages to illustrate the adjacent portion of the story text. y

2. An educational book including a plurality ofpermanently bound pages having a story text thereon provided at intervals with blank spaces, and a plurality of other pages bound 'with' the rst mentioned pages and having weakened lines adjacent the binding to perinit ready detachment of the main portions of said pages, the last mentioned pages having complete picture units thereon for cutting out and insertion in the appropriate blank spaces of the first pages to illustrate theadjacent portion of the story LESTER DOUGLAS. 

